Quotes from Frank Lowy

Democracy needs to be nurtured and treated with care.

If I had stuck to my knitting, I would have had a wonderful career having a delicatessen in Blacktown.

I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.

When I was a lone soldier I didn't have a penny with me. Everybody was eating hummus with tehina and ate falafel, and I couldn't buy it. I was a little hungry, but I managed.

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.

I have no fear about the future for retail investors.

I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.

It was very frustrating when I was president of Hakoah. You could not make any headway. We couldn't attract the public because it was an ethnic game. Australians were not interested.

Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.